Improvement in meat-saws



P. J. HOGAN & A. SOWDEN.

improvement in Meat-Saws.

Patented May 2,1871.

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their sate time can PATRICK J. HOGAN AND ADAM SOWDEN, OF CINCINNATI,OHIO.

Letters Patent'No. 114,509, dated May 2, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEAT-SAWS- The Schedule referred to in these LettersPatent and making part of the name.

To all whom it may concern:

'Be it known that we, PATRICK J. HOGAN and ADAM SOWDEN, both ofCincinnati, Hamilton county, State of Ohio, have invented a certain newand useful Improvement in Meat-Saws; and we hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being badto the accompanying drawing making part of this specification.

Nature and Objects of Invention.

Our invention consists in the combination of a metallic screw-socketedhandle-frame, a hollow curved elastic back, screw-threaded to fit thesocket of the metallic frame, and a saw-blade stretched between themetallic frame and the curved end of the hollow elastic back, the objectof our invention being to obtain an .elastic back which would be lightand yet'stiff enough to prevent lateral bending or springing, and alsoto obtain a connection for such a back with the saw, which would admitof cheap manufacture and form a rigid unyielding connectionfor the saw.

Description of the Accompanying Dru/wing. Figure l is a perspective viewof a meat-saw constructed in accordance with our invention.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of the same. Figure 3 is a detachedperspective view of the scrcw-socketed metallic handle-frame.

General Description.

A is the metallic handle-frame;

-B, the hollow curved elastic back; and

C, the saw.

The frame A is formed with a socket, a, screwthreaded interiorly for thereception. of the back B,

and is provided also with a socket, a, through which the shank c of thesaw C passes.

It is faced with wood A for the grasp of the hand, the wood beingfastened on by screws or rivets passing through holes a".

The back B is formed of common gas-pipe, curved,

as shown, to give suff cient distance between the saw and back, and alsoto give elasticity to the back. The elastic back saves the saw fromfracture by sudden strains, and also permits the use of a solid. eye orsocket, a".

The shank c is withdrawn entirely from the socket a, when the nut D isremoved simply by the retraction of the spring back, and can again .besprung into place for the attachment of the nut D. The nut D serves toadjust the saw to different degrees of tension.

The back is split at l) for the reception of the.

Claim. The herein-described hand-saw, composed of the metallichandle-frame A, as constructed, with screw threaded socket a andshank-eye a, curved hollow back B b, and adjustable saw 0 c D, the partsbeing arranged with reference to one another, as shown and set forth.

In testimony of which invention we hereunto set our hands. I

P. J. HOGAN. ADAM .SOWDEN.

Witnesses FRANK. MILLWARD,

J. L. WATERMAN.

